1. What a Programming Paradigm Is A programming paradigm is a class of typical programming conventions. On one hand, it provides engineers with a way to model entities, linking the physical world to code; on the other hand, it provides engineers with a way of thinking about code and programs.

1. What Currying Is According to the Wikipedia entry, in computer science currying is the technique of converting a function that takes multiple arguments into a function that takes a single argument (the first argument of the original function), and returns a new function that accepts the remaining arguments and returns a result.